Irina D. Costache

The Art of Understanding Art

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them with confidence.

- Offers an inquiry--unique among introductory art texts--into the learning process of understanding and appreciating art

- Examines the multiple issues and processes essential to making, analyzing and evaluating art

- Uses cross-cultural examples to help readers develop comprehensive, yet personal, ways of looking at and thinking about art

- Includes an annotated glossary of the 'Art World', institutions and individuals that play a role in defining art as well as diagrams, textboxes callouts and other visual elements to highlight information and enhance learning

- Richly illustrated with over 40 images

- Suggests innovative class assignments and projects useful for developing lesson plans, and offers an online companion site for additional illustrations and information

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 188mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780470658321
• ISBN-10: 0470658320
• Artikelnr.: 34161150

Autorenporträt

Irina D. Costache, Ph.D., is an art historian and Professor of Art History at California State University Channel Islands. Her innovative teaching methodologies have been recognized with awards and grants. She has curated several exhibitions, including Postmodern Calligraphies, Nature and/or Technology and Line and Color. Her presentations and publications include This is Not a Painting: Art History and the Internet, Visual Culture/ Virtual Art, Italian Futurism and the Decorative Arts, and Futurist Film: an Incomplete Project.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements "Read Me First" Why Is Art Made? The Purposes of Art
Anatomy of a Work of Art Part I: Making Art 1. Artists and Patrons 2.
Environment, Materials, and Context 3. Context Part II: Disseminating Art
4. The Disseminating of Original Art 5. Disseminating Art Through
Reproduction and Other Issues Part III: Analyzing Art 6. Visual Resources
Used to Analyze Art 7. Textual and Other Resources Used To Analyze Art 8. A
Critical Examination of Art Classification Part IV: Interpreting Art 9.
Interpreting Art: Criteria and Values 10. Methodologies of Art Conclusion
References (Notes, Suggested Readings, Films and Websites) List of
Illustrations Appendices /Additional Material: * "The Art World" * Creative
Assignments and Writing Projects * Information (Glossary of artists, art
movements, and terms) * Tools of the Trade Diagrams (1-8): Form and
Content(1-5)and Art Media(6-8)